Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 13, 2026
AIXI, October 13: a run to $3.99
AIXI opened up 33%, ran to $3.76, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $3.99, on 8.5M shares.
The open
It opened up 33%, at $3.21. It ran to $3.76 by 9:37 a.m.
The close
It closed at $2.99, 25% under its high.
What to take from it: The whole move was given back: it finished below the price it opened at.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 33.2% to $3.21 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $3.76 in 7 minutes, then gave back 140% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $2.99, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.41 |
| 4:07 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 549,579 shares |
| 8:20 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.99 |
| 8:20 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.99 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.21, up 33.2% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.99, 25.1% below the high |
The shape's name comes from a fixed rule, not a judgement (how shapes are named). Halts are in the halt table below.
The day in numbers
- Previous close
- $2.41
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.21
- Gap at the open
- +33.2%
- Pre-market high
- $3.99 at 8:20 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.99 at 8:20 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.61
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.99
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +24.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.48 at 5:03 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 13.83 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 352,789
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 2.1×
- Float
- 549,579 shares, from filings as of October 13, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 565,211
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 8.55 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (60%), 2.59 million in the first 30 minutes (18%), and 3.04 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (21%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 549,579 shares: past it once at 4:07 a.m., twice at 4:13 a.m., three times at 4:19 a.m.
- Other days AIXI met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 11, the latest on October 23, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it was in play on the intraday runners: up 30% or more on $3 million or more really traded, outside the small-cap rule's price, relative volume or float, its high reached $1 or more and it started the day at $20 or under (the rule every page uses).
Halts (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for AIXI that day.
Halt bands that day: the LULD plan's Amendment 18 rules (what that means, LULD calculator).
How we read the data, name a day's shape and pick the stocks: methodology.
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